"she was stalked by threats of violence and actual violence ever since coming out as gay, both in her home country and in Mexico, where she fled first as an adult. I survived an assassination attempt and many attacks. I left for Mexico first, hoping to stay there, but violence followed me," Rivers tells 48 Hills. "Eventually, I moved to San Francisco for work. Here, I finally felt accepted for who I am."
"A few days before my court date, friends warned me not to appear because people were being picked up. But I wanted to do things right. I knew if I didn't show up, I could get an automatic deportation order. So I went to court with my lawyer. She was quickly approached by ICE and carted off to ICE's Golden State Annex detention center in McFarland, California, where she spent most of the last three months."
A trio of Latinx drag performers will stage a protest show in Oakland against ICE. The cast includes Hilary Rivers, who spent three months in ICE detention after being detained when she attended an immigration court hearing in San Francisco. Rivers was born in El Salvador, raised in Guatemala, and fled to Mexico and San Francisco after receiving death threats and violence for being gay, including an assassination attempt. Friends warned her not to attend court, but she went to avoid automatic deportation and was taken by ICE to the Golden State Annex in McFarland. She was granted asylum and returned to San Francisco in late September and reports harassment during detention.
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